CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Produce small game Thursday,

initially around five (7)

5 Going west, track island’s

gobblers (7)

9 Mother taking Ann some

heavenly food (5) 10 Forecasting aid, love me in

exchange (9)

11 Lugs Chess LP all over (7) 12 Set fire to bananas,

dieting (7)

13 Emblems of Thanksgiving crop

a cousin arranged (11) 17 Appetizer nuts hero

devours (4,7)

22 Beat part of an egg, adding a

cup (7)

23 Relaxed, I eat sloppy

stuff (7)

25 Recycled true ID tag,

thanks (9)

26 Guest ultimately wasted

some dark meat (5) 27 Overheard little trick (7) 28 Hands over metal-coated

containers for coffee (5,2)

DOWN

1 Bumpkin with some rum stuffing longing for the old country (8)

2 Managed singer/actress’s low

houses (8)

3 In strudel, a tender thrill (5) 4 Half-basted in Mexican

snack sauce (7)

5 Interim changing

stations (7)

6 Get nostalgic about sort of pie that’s served at holidays and is filling (9)

7 Strange taste with eastern

property (6) 8 Pipe down some wines’ remnants (6)

14 Endorsing wacko pol, hid gun (9)

15 Ram goes around by way of bird exhibits (8)

16 Pound gobbled by chewers on long broadcast (8)

18 Tell tally again (7)

19 Salt put in dry pumpkin pie, e.g. (7)

20 My group adopts wise practices (6)

21 Drumstick consumed papal envoy (6)

24 Spud treat freshly prepared (5)